The First English Female Aerial Traveller | Science Museum Blog

“For herself, Letitia Ann Sage felt ‘more happy, and infinitely better pleased with my excursion, than I ever was at any former event of my life’. Evidently, her neighbours were equally captivated: “The door is never quiet a single instant’”

Image: Engraving by Rigaud of George Biggin, Mrs Hoare and Vincenzo Lunardi in a balloon/ Public Domain

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